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A happy trio make their way up Broadway and towards Volunteer Park during todays Gay Pride parade in Downtown Seattle.
Geff Hinds Photo

Three people participating in a demonstration walk with their arms around each other. One holds a sign reading, "United Against Nazis! Radical Women."

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Photograph by Bob Rudsit

Striking gasfitters and electrical workers stall in talks with employers. The strike had been in progress for 69 days. About 340 union members from parts of King, Pierce, Snohomish, Thurston, and Lewis counties have been affected, with an additional 260 members of other unions striking in support. Photo by staff member Bob Rudsit.

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The Rev. Don Magill from the Metropolitan Community Church at 1106 S. Yakima Ave. leads protestors outside Hosanna Christian Fellowship Church as Lon Mabonm here to speak against Tacoma's new gay rights ordinance.
(Photo by Russ Carmack)

Striking foundrymen gathered at the Atlas Foundry and Machine Co. to picket as their negotiators met in Portland, trying to reach an agreement with a group of foundries located in Oregon, Washington, and California. “The strikers are members of Washington State Local 158 of the Molders and Allied Workers union.” They have been on strike for six weeks.

Striking workers hold up an effigy wearing a hardhat and holding a signs reading, "SCAB" and "Reward for the capture of any SCAB or truck inside foundry." Other signs read, "United we stand, divided we fall," and "On Strike/International Molders Allied Workers Union/Local 158 AFL CIO."

A striking worker holds a sign reading, "LOCKED OUT Retail Store Employees Local 367."

Teamster union members walked off the production lines at Nalley’s Fine Foods and set up picket lines while in a contract dispute with the Tacoma processing firm. Photo member by staff Russ Carmack.

A striking worker sits in the back of a pick up truck parked in front of the G.W. Paulson flooring business storefront. A mannequin wearing a hardhat holds a sign reading, "On strike against G.W. Paulson."

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Left to right -- Sin Ja Jo, Yang Sun Yon, Tok Sun Young
Kellman photo

Sin Ja Jo, Yang Sun Yon, and Tok Sun Young hold signs reading, "Unfair labor practice- strike." They participate in a walk-out turned lockout, protesting Path Enterprises on 7717 Portland Ave. The workers had voted in August to form a union, but contract negotiators for the union and the company had not yet reached an agreement.

Two striking workers hold signs reading, "On Strike Local 82 Plumbers and Pipefitters University Mech."

Family members of the striking Tacoma Boatbuilding Co. workers joined the picket lines with signs and singing in support. Two thousand two hundred workers are striking the plant. “Lillian Stevens, Claudia Selby, and Brian Ferguson, 9, from left, sang family support for strikers.” Photo by staff member Bruce Kellman.

A group of demonstrators hold a banner reading, "STRIKE." A sign in the background reads, "Tough times never last but tough people do."

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International Woodworkers of America local 3-38 formed an informational picket line at the Simpson owned Commencement Bay Mill Company at 11th and Portland Avenue in Tacoma on Tuesday morning. They claim that so many workers honored the picket that the mill did not operate Tuesday. Local 3-38 workers are on strike against Simpson in Shelton.
Three of the people in photo are IWA 3-38 members from Shelton; the person who is second from the left is a union carpenter who stopped by to give moral support. His name is Roger Dudley...
From left: Patsy Glaser, Roger Dudley, Bill Gibson, and Doug Norton.
Bruce Kellman

“Hawthorne residents protested giving up their homes for the dome.” During a public hearing, the public was divided on where to build the dome. The city council heard people arguing about placing the dome downtown or in the Hawthorne Neighborhood. Photo by staff member Bob Rudsit.

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Erick Johnson

Three people hold signs reading, "Save Historic Hawthorne" and "We won't move our homes of fifty years or more. They are paid for."

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Erick Johnson's home was moved to the South End.
Sign:
I will not Sell My Property To The City Or Mayor Parker.
No Parking Lot in My Front Yard.

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Demonstrators
Photo by Bob Rudsit

Demonstrators gather in front of a bridge with signs reading, "Save our fish" and "Supreme Courts decision unclear."

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News/ Puyallup Women Protest Spouse Fishing Ruling
Angry Puyallup Tribe women gathered at the Tribal administration building to protest a new rule disallowing spouses fishing rights. From left, Laura Rivera, Ramona Bennet, Deanna Val Peterson, and Betsy Terrones (holding kids Joaquin 1, and Richard, 2 months). After meeting with the group of women the rule was dropped and the spouse fishing right was restored.
Photo by Dean J. Koepfler

A display of cow eggs! Balls painted with blakc and white cow spots in a wheelbarrow full of straw on display in the dairy barn.

A little girl gets her face painted at the Kid's Free Face Painting booth

Legendary film star and accomplished artist George Montgomery (left) joined forces with nationally recognized local Western artist Fred Oldfield on a "quick draw" piece that was auctioned, with proceeds going to the Fair's Scholarship Fund.

Man in Scottish outfit with kilt holds Scottish Blackface sheep on leads while posing with a girl holding a laughing baby boy on a sheep's back.

Floral Department Superintendent Louise Merriman and her husband sit on a bench with the Washington State Fair costume character chicken.

Cooking pancakes at the Puyallup Downtown Breakfast. Andy the inflatable cow is up the street in the background.

A giant pumpkin, carved at the Washington State Fair by Russ and Pam Leno. This is the Fair's centennial celebration.

A portion of the Floral Show at the Washington State Fair.

An overhead view of the midway during the Washington State Fair.

The Washington State Fair's Northwest Concert Center.

The Washington State Fair's Planting Patch.

A portion of the grange exhibits at the Washington State Fair.

A portion of the grange exhibits at the Washington State Fair.

A group of sheep being shown at the Washington State Fair.

A ribbon-winning grange display at the Washington State Fair.